Education Secretary Calls For End to Birmingham Protests

Education Secretary Damian Hinds has called for an end to protests against LGBT-inclusive education in Birmingham schools.

On the 31stof May an injunction was granted to the school to prevent protestors from gathering.

Speaking to ITV News, Hinds said: “All children of all ages should know about relationships and should be respectful of other people’s relationships.

“(Same-sex families are) just a fact of life in modern Britain.”

He added that he himself was raised Catholic, “I happen to have a faith which has love at its heart, actually, and I think that’s true for people of faith in general as it is for people who don’t have any faith.

“Of course different religions have their own different traditions and in this country we have diversity in our school system, including faith schools.

“Religion itself is one of the so-called protected characteristics, we respect the fact that people do come from different faith backgrounds. But the law of the land is the law of the land.

“Diversity and equality are a matter of fact and a matter of law and it’s right that we respect that in schools.”

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